Re: A good use for old Cat5!
Awesome,
Good speaker wire is ridiculously expensive. + Rep
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I'm gonna put this up against some monster cables tonight, and this weekend I'll try to get it tested against some Kimbers... nothing like beating $500+ speaker wire with old Cat5. :D
Re: A good use for old Cat5!
Re: A good use for old Cat5!
my brother did something similar but only used 1 cable and some make and female plugs. i'm not sure if it was for speakers though and if it was it was only for signal not hooked directly to the speakers. he ex girlfriend's dogs likes wires so she can't have full surround sound with the stock length wires. so he got some cat5 and made them (the rear speakers) detachable.
cool idea though +rep.
Re: A good use for old Cat5!
*update*
After playing these wires for several hours last night, and 2 hours so far today, I'm still in love with them. Apparently, Cat5 speaker wire takes some time to "break in" before it sounds *REALLY* good. (Audio guys are a little nuts I think..)
Anyways, I'm still playing them now, and currently fighting someone on Ebay for some killer speakers.
Oh also, I'm going to try building the interconnects next to spiff up the signal from the pre-amp to the amp. :D
Re: A good use for old Cat5!
How'd they compare to the Monster Cables?
Re: A good use for old Cat5!
Hands down winners over the Monster Cable (Big-100) speaker wire. :D :D :D
Bass was deeper and louder, highs were clearer, and the whole soundstage was wider.
Re: A good use for old Cat5!
*update*
Missed out on the speakers on Ebay.. dammit.. someone put a proxy bid of $350 USD. I only went to $150 USD, then stopped.. I could probably build those speakers for less than that. :P
Interconnects will be built tomorrow when I get home from the inlaws house, and I'm going to try and sketchup the speaks myself too.. maybe I'll just build them.
Re: A good use for old Cat5!
I pulled a spool of old CAT5 out of the garbage. This is a great idea. You stated you went with 6 strands... would it matter how many based on amps?
Does anyone know if CAT5 can be used to replace phone wiring? I'd like to re-wire my entire house with the stuff.